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ASTA news MEMBERS INFO
Valuable research available to Premium Members
As a new benefit, ASTA’s Premium
Members will have full access to our Travel Agency Benchmarking Series and can choose to receive one of our highly anticipated commissioned reports available this year, including:
2016 ASTA Labor and Compensation Report From employment trends to compensation models, you’ll have special insight into classifications, recruitment of travel agents and the Department of Labor (DOL) plans for overtime.
Independent Agents Report: 2016 Edition Tis report outlines data from a survey with NACTA members surrounding operational trends, commission structure and host agency relationships within the independent agent community.
CONSUMER LEADS
Get the lead on your clients Te Consumer Lead Board is a
service provided by ASTA to help connect consumers with travel agents. Consumers visiting
TravelSense.org can post details about a trip they would like to take and member agents can view the postings in a password-protected section of
asta.org and respond online.
Trip details Te form the consumer fills out
covers a lot of ground. While they’re encouraged to provide as many details as possible (pets, car rentals, vegetarian meals, etc.), the information shown in the list view is all they’re required to post. Tough the form was developed to allow posters to be succinct, the Trip Description is perhaps the most valuable bit of information on the page, with a lot of the detail necessary for planning.
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2016 ASTA Agency Profile Report Gain insight and awareness into ASTA member agencies’ key demographics, including location types, sales volumes and profit trends, and much more.
2016 ASTA Service Fee Report Discover the latest service fee practices in the travel agency industry while gaining insight into travel agency exploration of other revenue sources such as consultation fees, markups and more.
2017 ASTA GDS Usage Report Te GDS report covers travel agency distribution trends related to GDS usage, from how agencies book travel to how they negotiate their contract. Great for agencies evaluating their current GDS contracts and industry suppliers wanting to understand GDS usage. For more details, email
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Key Dates
July 27 New York ASTA Summer Festival
August 26-29 ASTA Global Convention, San Diego, CA
September 13-16 NACTA Annual Conference, Anchorage, AK
October 3 Great Lakes Chapter Travel Trade Show, Detroit, MI
October 4 Great Lakes Chapter Travel Trade Show, West Michigan
October 26 Northern California Chapter — Hawaii Product Seminar, Big Island, HI
November 8-12 ASTA China Summit, Guiyang, China
November 16 Northern California Chapter — Cruise Night, San Francisco, CA
December 2017 Signature’s 2017 Sales Meeting, Mandalay Beach Resort, Las Vegas, NV
The response Below their information is space for
a response. Put your e-mail address in the ‘From’ field. Te subject field will already be filled in as ‘Response To Trip Request # xxxx.’ Te information from your member
profile is entered automatically into the message box, though this may be edited. Any extra contact information (e.g. 24- hour service number) should be added to the response.
Sell yourself Tis is your moment to shine. Show
off your expertise in the area. Be brief, but tell the original poster what you have in mind for them. Include options that most closely address their trip request. Sell them the trip of their dreams.
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